August 15, 2004 — After months of building runways, refueling aircraft, detonating Improvised Explosive Devices, and convoying tens of thousands of miles in Iraq’s Al Anbar province, the Marines of Marine Wing Support Squadron 374, Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, are going home. On Feb. 12, 2004 more than 500 Leathernecks from Marine Wing MORE
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August 14, 2004 — The “Vipers” of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, have recently arrived in Iraq as part of the scheduled rotation of forces supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The “Vipers” are replacing HMLA-167 as a multi-functional force in the Al Anbar province, said Lt. Col. Lloyd A. Wright, MORE
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August 14, 2004 — Under cover of darkness, an armada of fixed and rotary wing aircraft lifted into the night recently. The aircraft included nearly every type and model the Marine Corps has working in the Al Anbar province of western Iraq. The mission was a huge multi-service, combined arms assault to capture high value targets, known to be residing or hiding in the MORE
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August 14, 2004 — “By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys … It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battlefield but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ‘Our Father MORE
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August 10, 2004 — Six recon pathfinders from 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, recently jumped into the Iraqi night sky and into history from a Marine KC-130 Hercules cargo plane belonging to the joint Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadrons 234 and 352, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. The high altitude high opening jump took MORE
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August 09, 2004 — After months of transporting and patrolling the skies of Iraq’s Al Anbar province, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466 and Marine Attack Squadron 214, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, are going home. Both squadrons continue to complete their mission despite sections of their squadron having already flown home. Marines from the MORE
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August 06, 2004 — Lt. Col. Peter L. Bowling, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, relinquished command of the “Forerunners” to Lt. Col. Lawrence S. Loch, in a change of command ceremony here July 31. Bowling enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 1976. Following an honorable discharge in August 1980, he obtained MORE
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August 06, 2004 — The Marine Corps Aviation Association recently named the “Greyhawks” of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 161, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing as the Edward C. Dyer Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron of the Year. The award was established in memory of Brig. Gen. Dyer, who was a pioneer helicopter pilot. The “Greyhawks” are no MORE
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August 06, 2004 — Freshly promoted Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael R. King, assistant Wing embark officer, Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, never had an inkling when he became a parent nearly two decades ago, that his first-born son was destined to serve with him in a combat zone, much less help pin on his new rank. What the father MORE
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August 06, 2004 — “…If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run – Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is MORE
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